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Curious Syndrome. Kitaj's visual skill spares him from making just word games. He is coming to realize that source dropping can become as precious?and boring?as name dropping. As he could learn from another expatriate, the late T. S. Eliot, it is the poetry, not the footnotes, that...
Consolation Prize. Actually, of course, the painting belonged to the Pellerin family, which has already given five Cézannes to the Louvre (which has a total of 26). To sweeten the deal that allowed The Bathers to leave France, the Pellerins gave still another Cézanne, an 1868...
With the new Cézanne now up on the wall, British critics are beginning to concede that the prize was worth capturing. London Observer Critic Nigel Gosling, who had thought the black and white reproduction, first released by the National Gallery, suggested "something intellectual and contrived" about the painting...
Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase was bought in 1913 for only $350. Now valued at $250,000 by the Philadelphia Museum of Art, it is perhaps one more example of the public catching up with revolutionary art. But its technique of multiple exposures bridges the gap between Muybridge...
Among boating buffs, unlike the mink-toothbrush set, there is no such creature as the man who has every thing. He may think he has - between boat shows. But when January rolls around and coliseums fill up with new craft and a thousand gadgets that have suddenly become sine qua...